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A new fiscal model aimed at keeping rural hospitals solvent is expanding in Pennsylvania, though this global budgeting strategy doesn’t always prevent…
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Air quality activists protested at the City County Building in downtown Pittsburgh, before Friday’s Allegheny County Board of Health meeting, to voice…
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Western Pennsylvania is seeing more flu cases than what’s usually seen at this point during the season, according to state Department of Health data.So…
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Health and environmental scientists who specialize in the potential impacts of oil and gas production will discuss their work on Tuesday at the annual…
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Information is power, and Allegheny County has a new tool to track public health trends as they're happening.The county health department is beta testing…
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A second man has been indicted in relation to the rash of drug overdoses that occurred earlier this week in the Pittsburgh area.There was a total of eight…
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Summer is winding down, which means pumpkin spice lattes are popping up in coffee shops and Halloween decorations are appearing on store shelves.It also…
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The rate of fatalities caused by the opioid epidemic has begun to wane, according to both national and local data.While this current drug crisis is…
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The University of Pittsburgh has received a $5.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to research opioid use in Appalachia.The region has…
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Telemedicine has the potential to connect people in rural communities to health care providers who might otherwise take hours to reach by car. But a new…